Seems like very few people have noticed that this is the Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, Arizona, which is entirely open to the public. I toured the same place and took pictures very much like what is in the article. It's definitely high up there in the list of cool places for a geek to visit while on vacation:
I would also recommend the nearby Pima Air and Space Museum, also in Tucson. There is also supposedly the Biosphere II one could visit, although I didn't get to see that. As a Coloradoan, my road trip through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah was the best I've ever taken. Maybe not up there in a typical tourist's list of places to visit, but if you're a geek, there are plenty of aerospace and nuclear related things which are totally awesome. Hope to go down there again someday.
The unused horizontal space isn't wasted. It's obviously there to show you parts of your pretty scenic background (otherwise what would be the point of a background if it were covered with windows all the time?).
For example, as I compose this message on the middle third of my wide screen, I have a pretty ocean scene on the margins. Windows 7 makes it even better by changing it periodically. Ahhhh, so peaceful...
I'm sure this is a useful for some applications, but at 676 bits on that large piece of plastic, this thing probably does not even rival core memory in terms of storage density. They got a lot of shrinking to do before this thing can store even one MP3 file.
I'm sure widespread use invisibility cloaks will lead to increased recruitment of blind people to the military. And that blind kid who does echolocation will be recruited to train a new elite force of super-soldiers.
Not so for packet sniffers. Putting the NIC in promiscuous mode requires root privileges. The way wireshark gets around it is by requiring a service to be installed under root that then allows regular users to access the NIC through the service.
A lot of people here have pointed out the vulnerability of allowing someone to choose to install a package with a known exploit, but even if no such buggy code existed, there are other vulnerabilities to consider. For example, if regular users install a signed package of wireshark and/or metasploit they can now use such tools to attempt to compromise network security.
Whoohoo! A win for open-source! Linux geeks everywhere can now recompile the source code for this tool on their favorite Linux distro, run it... and install Windows 7?
I think he meant "chess game" in a generic colloquial way, just as some people refer to tissue paper as "Kleenex". One could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that where he comes from, it is perfectly acceptable to say "hey, let's go down to the ball park and watch a chess game of baseball"
The most annoying thing about DVI-I is that the majority of the DVI cables that you'll find in your IT room (those which ship with LCD panels) do not have pins or wires for the analog portion -- they are DVI-D cables. Drove me bat shit insane once tracking down why a daisy-chain of DVI-VGA adapters, VGA-only KVMs, VGA-DVI adpaters and LCD monitors did not work, even though everything was physically hooked up.
IMHO, it's criminal to have cables that physically fit a connector, but do not support all of the connector's features.
Car analogy - Clearview isn't figuring out whether the whole car is perfect (in the real world it's 100% likely to be imperfect anyway;) ), all it does is help detect and fix the holes in the exterior.
I ran this program on my car and all was good until I went to fill up the gas tank. Bloody hell, Clearview got rid of the gas tank orifice!
Restricting malware to user space only makes sense in a multiuser system. If you're an individual non-tech savvy home user, and your own account got infected with a keylogger, your identity would be stolen even if the Administrator account and system files remained pristine and untouched. The only thing you would gain by sandboxing the user on a single-user machine would be the ability for a service technician to rid the system of malware by delete that account and recreating it.
Well, the trouble with distributing code to end users, even if it is made as simple as a "rpm --rebuild" is that it comes with the assumption that the end-user has all the compilers and all the devel packages installed. For most tech-savvy geeky-type users, this may well be a reasonable assumption, but for non-savvy users, it might be that those things are not installed, especially on storage-limited devices like netbooks.
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Seems like very few people have noticed that this is the Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, Arizona, which is entirely open to the public. I toured the same place and took pictures very much like what is in the article. It's definitely high up there in the list of cool places for a geek to visit while on vacation:
http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/
I would also recommend the nearby Pima Air and Space Museum, also in Tucson. There is also supposedly the Biosphere II one could visit, although I didn't get to see that. As a Coloradoan, my road trip through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah was the best I've ever taken. Maybe not up there in a typical tourist's list of places to visit, but if you're a geek, there are plenty of aerospace and nuclear related things which are totally awesome. Hope to go down there again someday.
So much for Apples and their fancy titanium cases. The thing can't even stop a few measly bullets.
The unused horizontal space isn't wasted. It's obviously there to show you parts of your pretty scenic background (otherwise what would be the point of a background if it were covered with windows all the time?).
For example, as I compose this message on the middle third of my wide screen, I have a pretty ocean scene on the margins. Windows 7 makes it even better by changing it periodically. Ahhhh, so peaceful...
I'm sure this is a useful for some applications, but at 676 bits on that large piece of plastic, this thing probably does not even rival core memory in terms of storage density. They got a lot of shrinking to do before this thing can store even one MP3 file.
...only the blind shall see.
I'm sure widespread use invisibility cloaks will lead to increased recruitment of blind people to the military. And that blind kid who does echolocation will be recruited to train a new elite force of super-soldiers.
So, how long will it be before some wiseguy sends a phallus to the printer to piss someone off?
Holy crap! Imagine playing Pong on this thing!
The problem with a programming language based on English is that now companies will have to train their programmers on English spelling.
Since when did The Who start making announcements about flu pandemics? Is this like a PSA with celebrity endorsements?
We need a Panasonic ToughNetBook... you know, a mil-spec hardened netbook, available only in camouflage.
msg db 'Hello, world!$'
start:
simon_says mov ah, 09h
simon_says lea dx, msg
simon_says int 21h
simon_says mov ax,4C00h
simon_says int 21h
end start
(source: wikipedia)
Not so for packet sniffers. Putting the NIC in promiscuous mode requires root privileges. The way wireshark gets around it is by requiring a service to be installed under root that then allows regular users to access the NIC through the service.
A lot of people here have pointed out the vulnerability of allowing someone to choose to install a package with a known exploit, but even if no such buggy code existed, there are other vulnerabilities to consider. For example, if regular users install a signed package of wireshark and/or metasploit they can now use such tools to attempt to compromise network security.
Like in the movie Brazil!
Whoohoo! A win for open-source! Linux geeks everywhere can now recompile the source code for this tool on their favorite Linux distro, run it... and install Windows 7?
Sounds like a Pyrrhic victory to me...
Well then, I propose web masters everywhere boycott cookies and instead track their users using crackers and croutons!
I think he meant "chess game" in a generic colloquial way, just as some people refer to tissue paper as "Kleenex". One could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that where he comes from, it is perfectly acceptable to say "hey, let's go down to the ball park and watch a chess game of baseball"
The most annoying thing about DVI-I is that the majority of the DVI cables that you'll find in your IT room (those which ship with LCD panels) do not have pins or wires for the analog portion -- they are DVI-D cables. Drove me bat shit insane once tracking down why a daisy-chain of DVI-VGA adapters, VGA-only KVMs, VGA-DVI adpaters and LCD monitors did not work, even though everything was physically hooked up.
IMHO, it's criminal to have cables that physically fit a connector, but do not support all of the connector's features.
I agree. Enough with this new fangled laser-guided female mice... I want mice with BALLS.
If I want to go online to read my dead-tree edition magazine, I'ld just subscribe to the freaking digital edition.
Older versions of quicken software, older versions of MYOB
Your business software isn't old enough to be compatible. I just ran VisiCalc for DOS (copyright 1979) and it ran fine under Windows 7.
Car analogy - Clearview isn't figuring out whether the whole car is perfect (in the real world it's 100% likely to be imperfect anyway ;) ), all it does is help detect and fix the holes in the exterior.
I ran this program on my car and all was good until I went to fill up the gas tank. Bloody hell, Clearview got rid of the gas tank orifice!
Great. I'm looking forward to a whole new crop of engineering textbooks with references to "water goats" instead of "hydraulic rams"
Restricting malware to user space only makes sense in a multiuser system. If you're an individual non-tech savvy home user, and your own account got infected with a keylogger, your identity would be stolen even if the Administrator account and system files remained pristine and untouched. The only thing you would gain by sandboxing the user on a single-user machine would be the ability for a service technician to rid the system of malware by delete that account and recreating it.
Well, the trouble with distributing code to end users, even if it is made as simple as a "rpm --rebuild" is that it comes with the assumption that the end-user has all the compilers and all the devel packages installed. For most tech-savvy geeky-type users, this may well be a reasonable assumption, but for non-savvy users, it might be that those things are not installed, especially on storage-limited devices like netbooks.